154 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1738.

Lib. C. B.

License by his Excellencys Directions accordingly issued in
the following Words.

Maryland ss.
Samuel Ogle Esq^r Lieutenant Governor and Ordinary under
the Right honourable the Lord Proprietary of this Province
To Ralph Elston of Christ Church Parish in Queen Anns

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County Sendeth Greeting Whereas the Vestry of the said
Parish have represented to me that there is not any Minister
in the said Parish, and have also presented to me You the
said Ralph Elstone as a sober and discreet Person to be a
Reader in the said Parish Therefore for the performing the
Duty and Office of a Reader in the said Parish in reading
Divine Service Homilies and such other Good Authors of
Practical Divinity as shall be appointed in the Church or
Chappel of the s^d Parish, and not in any other Manner (having
first taken the Oaths subscribing the Test and Abjuration) and
also demeaning your Self according to the Liturgy of the
Church of England I do by these Presents grant License and
Faculty to you the said Ralph Elstone to be such Reader to
continue during Pleasure & during such Continuance to have
take and receive from the Vestry of the said Parish One half
of the forty pounds of Tobacco p Poll growing due from the
Inhabitants of the said Parish In Testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my Hand and Seal this 27^th Day of November in
the twenty fourth year of his Lordships Dominion Annoq
Domini 1738.
The Attorney General pursuant to a former Order of this
Board of the 18^th of October last makes Report that having
considered the Indictment and other Process against Ne-
gro in Calvert County Court, he finds the same to be
regular; and it appearing to this Board that the af^d Negro is a
notorious Offender, His Excellency is therefore pleased to
order with the Advice of this Board that a Warrant issue for
his Execution

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At a Council held at the house of his Excellency the Gov-
ernor in the City of Annapolis on Wednesday the I4^lh Day of
February in the twenty fourth Year of his Lordships Dominion
Annoq Dni 1738
Present

His Excellency Samuel Ogle Esq^r Governor
"Benjamin Tasker Esq^r
The honourable - Edmund Jenings Esq^r
Col Charles Hammond